in its frame, one ear tuned to the crashand boom of the sea restless in the dark.

I wonder if you would rather be outin it too; if you carry the same unhinged

feeling where a storm is a sanctuaryand a church a kind of shipwreck.

Kaddy Benyon was born in Cambridge and grew up in Suffolk. In 2012, she won the Crashaw Prize with the manuscript for her debut collection of poetry, Milk Fever (Salt Publishing). Ten of Kaddy’s poems were also shortlisted for the inaugural Picador Poetry Prize (chosen by Don Paterson, Jackie Kay, John Stammers and Sarah Crown). Kaddy is a Granta New Poet.